What are the documents of which Registration is compulsory under
Indian Registration Act 1908? Mandatory Registration of Documents in
India.

In India some documents are to be compulsorily
be registered with the Registrar / Sub- Registrar. If these
documents are not registered, the transfer may invalid in the eye of
law or the the parties may not be able to engage in litigation in
case of dispute. According to Section 17 of Registration Act 1908
the following documents to be registered Compulsorily.

As per the provision of Section 17(1)
Registration Act 1908 the following documents shall be registered,
if the property to which they relate is situate in a district in
which, and if they have been executed on or after the date on which,
Act No. XVI of 1864, or the Indian Registration Act, 1866, or the
Indian Registration Act, 1871, or the Indian Registration Act, 1877
or this Act came or comes into force, namely:-

(a) instruments of gift of immovable property;

(b) other non-testamentary instruments which purport or operate to
create, declare, assign, limit or extinguish, whether in present or
in future, any right, title or interest, whether vested or
contingent, of the value of one hundred rupees, and upwards, to or
in immovable property;

(c) non-testamentary instruments which acknowledge the receipt or
payment of any consideration on account of the creation,
declaration, assignment, limitation or extinction of any such right,
title or interest; and

(d) leases of immovable property from year to year, or for any term
exceeding one year, or reserving a yearly rent;

(e)
non-testamentary instruments transferring or assigning any decree or order of a
court or any award when such decree or order or award purports or operates to
create, declare, assign, limit or extinguish, whether in present or in future,
any right, title or interest, whether vested or contingent, of the value of one
hundred rupees and upwards, to or in immovable property:]

PROVIDED that the State Government may, by order published in the Official
Gazette, exempt from the operation of this sub-section any leases executed in
any district, or part of a district, the terms granted by which do not exceed
five years and the annual rent reserved by which do not exceed fifty rupees.

(2) Nothing in clauses (b) and (c) of sub-section (1) applies to-

(i) any composition-deed; or

(ii) any instrument relating to shares in a joint Stock Company, notwithstanding
that the assets of such company consist in whole or in part of immovable
property; or

(iii) any debenture issued by any such company and not creating, declaring,
assigning, limiting or extinguishing any right, title or interest, to or in
immovable property except insofar as it entitles the holder to the security
afforded by a registered instrument whereby the company has mortgaged, conveyed
or otherwise transferred the whole or part of its immovable property or any
interest therein to trustees upon trust for the benefit of the holders of such
debentures; or

(iv) any endorsement upon or transfer of any debenture issued by any such
company; or

(v) any document not itself creating, declaring, assigning, limiting or
extinguishing any right, title or interest of the value of one hundred rupees
and upwards to or in immovable property, but merely creating a right to obtain
another document which will, when executed, create, declare, assign, limit or
extinguish any such right, title or interest; or

(vi) any decree or order of a court 13[except a decree
or order expressed to be made on a compromise and
comprising immovable property other than that which is
the subject-matter of the suit or proceeding;] or

(vii) any grant of immovable property by government; or

(viii) any instrument of partition made by a
revenue-officer; or

(ix) any order granting a loan or instrument of
collateral security granted under the Land Improvement
Act, 1871, or the Land Improvement Loans Act, 1883; or

(x) any order granting a loan under the Agriculturists
Loans Act, 1884, or instrument for securing the
repayment of a loan made under that Act; or

14[(xa) any order made under the Charitable Endowments
Act, 1890, (6 of 1890) vesting any property in a
Treasurer of Charitable Endowments or divesting any such
treasurer of any property; or]

(xi) any endorsement on a mortgage-deed acknowledging
the payment of the whole or any part of the
mortgage-money, and any other receipt for payment of
money due under a mortgage when the receipt does not
purport to extinguish the mortgage; or

(xii) any certificate of sale granted to the purchaser
of any property sold by public auction by a civil or
revenue-officer.

15[Explanation: A document purporting or operating to
effect a contract for the sale of immovable property
shall not be deemed to require or ever to have required
registration by reason only of the fact that such
document contains a recital of the payment of any
earnest money or of the whole or any part of the
purchase money.]

(3) Authorities to adopt a son, executed after the 1st
day of January, 1872, and not conferred by a will, shall
also be registered.